I love "You've got kudos!" notifications

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I have >1000 Kudos on AO3 now. That means over a thousand times someone read something I wrote and enjoyed it, feels good :) I also have >100 bookmarks and >50 comments and >10 user subscriptions (that last one still feels strange), nice.

Unsurprisingly the eight stories with the highest absolute numbers are in Hockey RPF because it's the biggest fandom I write in (my SGA fic was originally posted somewhere else and only later transferred to AO3.) My fic sorted by Kudos.

Interesting to me is also the hit/kudos ratio, and here fic from smaller fandoms and gen fic does a bit better:
1. Home Is Where My Rink Is (Hockey RPF) – 16,8% kudos (apparently alien fic is very popular.)
2. Assuming Shape (Young Avengers) – 16,8%
3. Flying for Beginners (Hockey RPF/Jupiter Ascending) – 15,3%
4. Make the Night a Little Less Loud (The Maze Runner) – 13,1%
5. Kadavo (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) – 10,7%
6. Losing Down (Hockey RPF) – 9,8%
7. Captain's Mark (Hockey RPF) – 8,3%
8. Rainbow Patches on Our Jerseys (One Day) (Hockey RPF) – 7,8%
9. Collateral Damage (SG1/SGA) – 7,7%
10. Drawn to You (Hockey RPF)– 7,5%

I already posted six fics this year, not too bad. Currently there are three I'm sort of working on, two Hockey RPF AUs and one Clone Wars story, and there are a few kinkmeme prompts I'm thinking about. Or it could be something completely unexpected, like the last time.

If you want me to talk about any of my stories go ahead and ask :)

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Any plans to write more of "home is where my rink is" and/or "Flying for beginners"? They're both interesting stories that I'd like to see more of.

[schneefink]

Thank you! :D

I still hope I'll get an idea for a continuation of "Flying for Beginners", but not yet. I haven't really thought much about continuing the alien!Sid story. One possibility would be to write about the consequences of Flower taking responsibility for the kids: what happens if some of them do break the rules, what happens if he's forced to punish or even kill, what happens when Flower is in danger because of something Sid's siblings do. It would require additional worldbuilding details that I ignored so far, and figuring out the contract terms exactly, stuff like that, but it could be interesting.

[beatrice_otter]

It really could. I do wonder if Flower might delegate Sid for some of that stuff--Sid is a captain, and thus used to leadership; they are his siblings, and Flower's a whole 'nother species and might not always get the subtleties; etc.

[schneefink]

He wouldn't. He might ask for Sid's advice, depending on circumstances, but he would be careful to make sure everyone knew who was responsible and not to put Sid in an awkward position. Kind of like how a coach may consult the captain, but everyone knows the coach makes the decisions about who plays.